The Navy’s abrupt pivot from the troubled Constellation class to a new FF(X) “super frigate” has created a rare mix of ...
A U.S. navy MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter sits with its rotors folded on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima while the vessel is docked in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 17. In ...
“What happens to a highly advanced warship design when its signature weapon collapses under its own complexity?” For the U.S.
The massive vessels were decommissioned in favor of smaller, more versatile ships. And experts are skeptical of the plan to ...
President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of ...